Cortney's birthday was Tuesday and I wanted to make him his favorite cake, but he has 2: ice cream cake and red velvet. I tried to do both. Baskin Robbins is a pretty incredible person for making these seem so easy to make. This isn't a great picture of what turned out, but it wasn't that pretty in the first place. This recipe can be pretty easy, but if someone knows how to frost a cake and make it look pretty and swirly like they look in pictures, let me know how to do it!
Ice Cream Cake Recipe:
Any kind of cake mix
3 large eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 quarts any kind of ice cream, softened slightly (only 1 quart if you are making frosting and not covering with more ice cream)
Directions:
1. One hour before starting your cake, turn the freezer to its highest setting
2. Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs and oil, along with amount of water called for by the package directions.
4. Beat until well combined.
5. Divide the batter between the two pans.
6. Place the pans in the oven and bake until toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean (about 35 minutes).
7. Allow the cakes to cool for at least 10 minutes before removing them from the pans - let the layers cool completely before assembling the cake.
Assembling the Cake:
1. Cut off rounded tops of both cake layers.
2. Place one of the layers on an 8-inch cardboard cake round or a freezer-proof cake plate.
3. Using a rubber spatula, evenly spread 1 quart of the softened ice cream over the top of the plated layer.
4. Place the remaining cake layer on top of the ice cream.
5. Put the cake in the freezer to harder, about 1 hour.
6. Transfer the remaining softened ice cream to a mixing bowl (or frosting).
7. Cream by hand with a rubber spatula until it reaches the consistency of frosting.
8. Frost the top and the sides of cake with ice cream.
9. Put back in freezer to harden (about 1 hour)
**Use warm knife to serve!!
It was a poor attempt at my first Ice Cream Cake, but they can only get better....hopefully.
2 comments:
Poppycock on the poor attempt... this cake was graded an A+ by a culinary expert (credentials as a culinary expert based on the average amount of food consumed per day). Truly, the cake was the best tasting cake my taste buds have ever touched.
frosting can be tricky. This is when youtube can be useful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9n2uva4fw
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